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List of founders

Listing the 17 founders who cast bells which are in full-circle rings which are in the lieutenancy area of Cambridgeshire, have 5 bells, and are unringable.
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NameFoundingGroupLocationBellsBells DatedRings
Thomas Osborn 1779–1806 St Neots, Downham Market 10 1787–1791 2
Joseph Eayre 1735–1772 St Neots 7 1746–1748 2
Thomas Newman 1699–1745 Norwich Cambridge, Norwich 5 1704 1
(unidentified) 3 1710 1
John Thornton 1708–1720 Sudbury 2 1719 1
Richard Holdfield 1595–1612 Cambridge 2 1608 1
Miles III Graye 1647–1686 it: Essex, Herts, Hunts 2 1653–1660 2
John Draper 1599–1644 Thetford 2 1626–1627 1
Thomas II Mears 1806–1849 Whitechapel Whitechapel, Gloucester 2 1828–1840 2
John Taylor & Co from 1831 Loughborough Loughborough, Leics 2 1900 1
John Briant 1779–1825 Hertford 2 1784–1807 2
John Sturdy 1440–1458 London London 1 1450 1
Richard Nicholson 1590 Cambridge 1 1590 1
Richard Keene 1654–1703 Woodstock, Royston 1 1699 1
William Haulsey 1615–1629 St Ives, Cambridge 1 1621 1
John Grene 1571–1575 it (? based on Hitchin?) 1 1575 1
John Warner & Sons 1786–1921 Warner Cripplegate 1 1905 1
Total 45 1450–1905 9
Showing all 17 founders
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